OUTSIDER ART, ARTIST COLLECTIVES AND ACTIVISM

From the ancient sculpture workshops of the Classical Antiquity to the recent Documenta 15: artist collectives have always played an important role in art history. From shared ownership to a shared ideology: collectives can bring change on various levels and in various places. How do artist collectives use art to fight for human rights? What makes them so extraordinary in the art world? And can the concept of an artist collective also apply to outsider art studios?

The Museum Dr. Guislain will host the 2024 annual conference and general assembly of the European Outsider Art Association (EOA). Welcome in Ghent!

PROGRAMME

Two-days visits through Belgium
Thursday 23 and Saturday 25 May 2024

Visits to:

• Kunstwerkplaats De Zandberg: extraordinary art studio with a fashion designers collective

• Créahm Liège: the first art studio in Belgium

• LaM: French museum that houses, among other collections, the legendary L’Aracine collection

• Art et Marges museum: the Brussels outsider art museum

• Trinkhall museum: outsider art museum in Liège, strongly linked to the Créahm studio

• The tower of Eben Ezer: collective monument for peace conceived by Robert Garcet

• Art studio Centre La Pommeraie and Fondation Paul Duhem: renowned art studio and a foundation that aims to manage, conserve, study and promote the original creations as well as archives and all other documents relating to the works of the studio.

International Conference
Friday 24 May 2024

Speakers and panelists:

• Thomas Röske: director of the Prinzhorn Collection (Heidelberg, Germany) and President of the European Outsider Art Association

• Project Art Works: a collective of neurodiverse artists and activists working from a studio in Hastings (United Kingdom)

• Art Centre Wit.h: organises art expeditions beyond the boundaries of outsider art

• Monika Jagfeld: director of Open Art Museum (Sankt Gallen, Switzerland) and EOA board member

• Marc Steene: director of Outside In (Chichester, United Kingdom) and EOA board member

• Carl Havelange: director of Trinkhall museum

• Michiel De Jaeger: collaborator of Créahm Liège

• Villa Voortman: artist collective

• Lucinda Ra: artist collective

• Monika Perenyei: art historian and chief curator of the Psychiatric Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• Bart Marius: director of the Museum Dr. Guislain

With a special focus on artistic collectives and activism in Latin America, in collaboration with the University of Cologne (Marileen La Haije and Bieke Willem):

• Marileen La Haije: postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne

• Sofía Lanusse: director of the Outsider Art Fair and EOA board member

• Florencia Rodríguez Giles: artist, part of the artistic collective CAOs (Argentina) (online)

• Alfredo Olivera: founding member of Radio La Colifata (Argentina) and Colifata France

• Beatriz Liebe & Verónica Rodríguez: founding members of the performing arts festival L’Altre Festival (Spain) and El Otro Festival (Argentina) (online)

• Santiago Barugel: part of the recreation team at the Dr. C. Tobar García children’s hospital for mental health (Argentina)

• Larisa Zmud: artist, part of the artistic collective Belleza y Felicidad (Argentina) (online)

Visits of the exhibition Off-Comics (in collaboration with the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne and curator Erwin Dejasse) and the exhibition with outsider art works from Japan in collaboration with Kunsthuis Yellow Art and Mizue Kobayashi.

General Assembly
Sunday 26 May 2024

Only for EOA members.

Ticket price Total Package (23-26 May): 130 euros

The ticket price includes:

• Two-days visits through Belgium: entrance fees and lunch included

• International Conference: coffee, lunch and dinner (dinner exclusively for EOA members) included

• General Assembly

Ticket price Conference Only (24 May): 50 euros

The ticket price includes: coffee, lunch and dinner (dinner exclusively for EOA members)

The European Outsider Art Association (EOA) operates as an umbrella organisation devoted to the promotion of art and artists outside the mainstream art world.

With the support of